A/N: Sorry guys, I decided to tweak chapter seventeen, because I reread it and was really unhappy with it. Laurie felt really OOC, and I think she might still be.
A/N #2: I made a fanmix for everyone's favorite Haddonfield lesbians, which you can check out on my livejournal. Just type heylookitslissy followed by . livejournal . com (no spaces) to see it on my barely-used LJ account. Lemme know what you think!
A little over a month after the attacks, Laurie and Annie started going back to school.
Laurie got her driver's license the same week, and made sure to visit her parent's graves
at often as possible. They were healing.
The first day of school was obviously difficult. Not just work-wise, but socially. The
stares and whispers the pair received were enough to make even the oh-so-confident Annie
crack. All it took was one whisper from Ben Tramer's twin sister to make her lose her coolly-collected front. They were by the lockers when the taller girl leaned over and loudly whispered to her friend,
"Angela, there's Annie Brackett! I heard she wasn't really with Paul; he was her cover up. She's been fucking Laurie for like, two years. Poor Paul just got dragged into it all and ended up getting killed!"
To which her friend replied with a shocked gasp and a breathy whisper of "it's her fault he's dead!"
The girl who once compensated for her tiny body with a big personality as she strutted through the halls, crumpled into nothing but a small girl at those words. She quickly pushed her way through the herd of people in the hallway and dodged the stares and whispers that seemed to follow her presence.
She ran until she made her way to the bathroom furthest away from the students of Haddonfield High. She took a deep breath as she leaned against the sink, thinking that she had managed to get away undetected. But those thoughts quickly disappeared at the swishing of the bathroom door.
Annie took a deep breath as she turned around to face the only other person in the bathroom, silently praying that it wouldn't be Brea Tramer and her asshole friend Angela. It wasn't. Instead it was a very out-of-breath Laurie Strode.
After seeing the girl she loved run down that hallways, Laurie had thrown her well-worn canvas bag onto the floor next to her locker and ran after the other girl, not giving two shits about the seemingly-endless stares that followed her.
The two girls locked eyes across the bathroom, both freezing for a fraction of a second before Annie rushed towards the blonde and collapsed against her, finally losing it in front of the other girl.
"They said it's all my fault that Paul's dead, and they're right. I wouldn't have even been with him that night if I hadn't been so scared about what people thought of me being with you." Annie managed to get out between big gasps for air. The tears ran freely down her face as she clutched to Laurie's dark blue sweater.
It took a few moments for Laurie to figure out how to handle the situation she found herself in. She wasn't used to broken Annie, because usually she was the broken one. Usually she was the one who cried while Annie kissed her forehead and tried everything to comfort her.
But now the roles were switched. So Laurie did exactly what Annie would do; she pressed a kiss to the shorter girl's forehead before asking the inevitable, "Who said that it's your fault, Baby?"
A beat passed before Annie provided an answer, "Brea Tramer and Angela something-or-other."
Laurie untangled herself from the other girl, "No fucking way are they getting away with that."
With that, the slightly-taller girl kissed Annie's forehead once more before making her way out of the bathroom and down the hall, leaving Annie to rush after her, terrified about what she's going to do. In the past month Laurie had already lost her absolute cool over a simple cup of tea, what is she capable in a situation like this?
It wasn't long before Annie got her answer, because she turned the corner just in time to see Laurie shove Angela into the nearest wall and send a fist into Brea's nose. It was obvious to everyone around that she did it with the intent to cause serious damage, but nobody objected except for the principal, who escorted Laurie to the office, where Sheriff Brackett would be called to pick her up.
At the end of the day when Annie got home, Laurie was definitely rewarded. Most people would say that leaving two girls bloody on the hallway floor isn't behavior that should be rewarded, but Annie had a different view on it. Who doesn't love a blonde superhero? Because in Annie's book, that's exactly what Laurie was.
A/N #3: Here's a little challenge for you guys. Whoever can tell me what's in this chapter that connects to actors from Halloween and/or Halloween II, gets a little present when the next chapter rolls around.
A/N #4: By the way, the key word in the challenge is "actors". So, I'm just suggesting that you take a look at the actors from the two movies. Or maybe it's just one of the movies that you should be looking at… ;)